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Two Bicycle website R.I.P.s came across my radar this weekend:
Rick Smith announced that Yehuda Moon -- my favorite (only?) bicycle web-comic -- is closing shop for a while. R.I.P.
A vague post on Blue Collar MTB leads me to believe that all the Crooked Cog sites' days are numbered. That includes Commute By Bike. R.I.P.
I suppose that means that as the nice weather picks up, you'll be seeing more of my Tricks of the Trade and Product Reviews right here for the time being unless someone else (ahem) wants to snag me up.
Good Friday -- Oddly enough an R.I.P. in and of itself -- was last week. Like any other banking holiday, my company was closed. I had some business to attend to at a local retirement home 2 miles away from my place, but not an R.I.P.
Unrelated side-note: My great-grandfather died in 1991 at this retirement home at the age of 107! An avid mycologist by hobby, he wrote at least one book on mushrooms. He was also the oldest person to ever carry the Olympic torch, at age 99 in the 1984 Olympics. This event and his name were even mentioned by Ronald Reagan at the 1984 RNC. I miss him, but I'm glad he lasted long enough for me to remember him. R.I.P.
My wife and I went to the pet store on Friday as well. Not surprisingly, ducklings and bunnies were selling like hot-cakes. I'm not entirely sure what one would do with a full-grown duck as a pet. I suppose you'd just let it fly off. It would be pretty hard to keep one indoors.
I rode to Easter morning service, which was held at The Commons. It's an 11 mile trip in each direction. I only barely missed the rain on my way home. I carried about a 16 MPH average both directions, including stopped time. It feels good to finally see some of my speed coming back a little at a time.
Later, my wife and I drove down to my parents' place for a late Easter lunch.
This morning: Cold and wet. Half-way to the bus stop, I watched as my phone fell out of my jacket, bouncing and skidding along the wet pavement for a few dozen yards. The past few four-day work-weeks have me spoiled and I feel a serious case of the Mondays coming on.
Monday, April 13, 2009
R.I.P.s, Resurrections and Miscellany
Two Bicycle website R.I.P.s came across my radar this weekend:
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Say it's not so, Rick!! I just got a Yehuda shirt for my birthday last month. Oh the humanity. :(
- April 13, 2009 8:58 AM
I don't know what happens to the ducks, but alas, they cannot just fly off. they're not wild ducks--they're domestic breeds. they can't survive in the wild.
I do know what happens to the bunnies. most end up in shelters--those that live long enough.
- April 13, 2009 10:33 AM
- Noah said...
Indeed. I call it "Kitten Syndrome" - people think kittens are so cute and adopt one from a friend or co-worker: A myopic decision that effectively enters them into a 10-20 year contract.
For people like me who are ready, able, and excited about the responsibilities of caring for an animal, it's not a huge deal. Usually, though, parents let their kids hoodwink them into believing that the child will be able to care for the animal. Yeah, right.
Unfortunately, "Kitten Syndrome" isn't just for kittens. As you've mentioned, it affects easter pets like the ones we've discussed here. It also encompasses baby humans as well.
Indeed, it sickens me to see irresponsible people get themselves into these situations where the one they're supposed to take care of suffers, all because "it's sooooooo cute!"
I've participated in virtually all lifecycle aspects of various rodents, fish, cats, and lagomorphs and have taken care of several fowl. I love animals, but people should realize that they are hard work and require dedication.
Unfortunately, regardless of species and particularly with the baby humans, the solutions to "kitten syndrome" are not only very complicated, they're very controversial as well.
- April 13, 2009 10:48 AM
- Noah said...
And just to make it clear, we didn't buy any new pets at the pet store. I've just never had the opportunity to hold a duckling before, so I coddled that one while snapping a photo with my phone.
- April 13, 2009 10:49 AM
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Hope College faculty member and pianist Andrew Le will perform in Dimnent Memorial Chapel on Sunday, March 1, at 2 p.m.
The public is invited. Admission is free.
The performance will include John Corigliano's "Etude Fantasy (1976)," several works by Claude Debussy and Francis Poulenc's "Les Soirees de Nazelles"
Born in Saigon and raised in West Michigan, Le is a pianist, professor, photographer, violinist and orchestra clinician. He was the first-prize winner of the 2004 Hilton Head International Piano Competition, and gave his Carnegie Hall debut in the same year to critical acclaim. He was also a prizewinner in the 1997 Junior Gina Bachauer International Competition and the 1993 MTNA-Baldwin Competition. Le holds bachelor's and master's degrees from the University of Michigan, where he studied with Arthur Greene, and earned his Doctor of Music Arts degree from the JuilliardSchool, where he studied with Jerome Lowenthal.
Le is also a violinist in the Holland Symphony Orchestra and regularly performs with his wife, violinist Jennifer Walvoord, both locally and nationally. Together, they are the new (2009) artistic directors of the Chamber Music Festival of Saugatuck.
Le is currently the keyboard area head in the department of music at Hope, where he teaches applied piano, keyboard skills, piano literature and chamber music. He also founded the Brown Bag Series at the Arts Council, an informal series of outreach concerts, in collaboration with the Holland Area Arts Council.
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Southern Bread Pudding
I used to teach in a cooking school, and this was one of the most popular recipes. We often made bread pudding to serve as the final touch to a meal. I've added a few variations over the years, and my family loves it.
Total TimePrep: 30 min. + standing Bake: 30 min.
Makes8 servings
- 1/2 cup raisins
- 1/2 cup hot water
- 4 large eggs, room temperature
- 2 cups whole milk
- 3/4 cup sugar, divided
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 8 slices French bread (1/2 inch thick)
- butter, softened
- 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
- 1/2 cup butter, cubed
- 1 cup sugar
- 1/2 cup plus 2 tablespoons heavy whipping cream
- Place raisins in a small bowl; pour water over. Let stand for about 10 minutes to soften; drain. In a bowl, beat eggs. Add milk, 2/3 cup sugar, vanilla and raisins. Pour half into a greased 13-in. x 9-in. baking dish. Butter both sides of bread; arrange in a single layer over egg mixture. Cover with remaining egg mixture. Combine cinnamon with remaining sugar; sprinkle on top. Bake at 350° for 30 minutes or until a knife inserted in center comes out clean.
- Meanwhile, for sauce, melt butter in a saucepan. Add sugar; cook and stir over medium heat for 10 minutes. Remove from the heat and gradually stir in cream. Return to the heat; cook and stir 8-10 minutes longer or until thickened and golden-colored. Serve warm over a slice of bread pudding.
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This was a new way to make bread pudding for me - it was very easy and had a good flavor, and so did the butter sauce. I prefer bread pudding to be a little thicker, so next time I might double the recipe and layer it.
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this is by far my husband's favorite bread pudding recipe! Very rich and wonderful. The sauce is amazing!
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In my Grundy County history collection I have two work sheets from the Sam Werner Lumber Company dated May 1 thru May 15, 1939 and one dated May 15 thru May 30, 1939. Here I would like to give you the names of those workers at that time. They included Ernest Anderson, John Anderson, Sam Anderson, Sherman Anderson, Luther Bone, Buford Cantrell, Talmage Cantrell, Rudy Church, Henry Dove, Spencer Dove, Jim Harris, James M. Meyers, Harvey Owens, J.B. Owens, Rance Owens, Harold Pearson, Henry Schild, Martin Schild, Oscar Schulze, Clarence Summers, Marvin Summers, John Throneberry, Richard Throneberry, Charles M. Boyd, Carl E. Werner, Sam Werner, Jr. and Carl Werner.
The Sam Werner Company in Tracy City was a very large milling operation, making all types of lumber trim work, windows and doors. They were located in the Dutch-Town community in Tracy City.
News from the Grundy County Herald dated April 29, 1948 included: Della May Gross, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Claude Gross and Charles Byers were united in marriage at the Myers Hill Methodist Church Sunday, April 18th. The ceremony was performed by Rev. Aylor Layne.
In the May 13, 1948 edition of the Grundy County Herald, bids for a concrete block school building in the Providence community in Pelham were being asked for. The building would be 30 feet by 76 feet and one story. Bids were to be in no later than May 21, 1948. The notice was from E.J. Cunningham, Superintendent of Grundy County Schools.
The Tracy City Coca-Cola Bottling Plant in Tracy City was advertising Coca-Cola's for 25 cents plus deposit for a 6 bottle pack.
The Sequachee Valley Electric Cooperative had an ad showing "A Story of Progress," in the May 13, 1948 Grundy County Herald. Average residential consumption for 1944 was 1393 kilowatt hours; 1945 was 1551 kilowatt hours; 1946 was 1789 kilowatt hours; and 1947 was 2148 kilowatt hours. (I wrote this because Sequachee Valley Electric Cooperative will be celebrating its 75th year).
Partin's Store in Tracy City had these items for sale in the May 20, 1948 Grundy County Herald. Lard – 4 pounds for $1.03; Martha White Flour – 25 pounds for $2.09; Fleetwood Coffee – one pound for $.49; sugar – 10 pounds for $.89 and 5 pounds for $.45.
The Eagle Theatre in Monteagle had these movies in May 1948: "Cass Timberlake" with Spencer Tracy and Lana Turner; "Last of the Redmen" with Jon Hall and Michael O'Shea; "Gone with the Wind" with Clark Cable and Vivien Leigh" and "Rainbow Over the Rockies" with Jimmy Wakely.
In the Grundy County Herald of May 27, 1948: Grundy County students attending Tennessee Tech this quarter were: Gruetli: James Bouldin, James Moore and Tommy Moore; Tracy City: Ruth Geary, Paul Crick, Earl Cunningham, Joe Kilgore, Lloyd Ledbetter, Lillard Gibbs, Gene Nunley, R.D. Martin, Don Roberts, Bettye Crouch, and Orin Crouch; Palmer: Johnny Fletcher, Charles Levan, Jr., Robert Morgan, Jr., Ambrose Rust, and Richard Savage; Altamont: Betty Rollings and W.H. McGinnis. This makes a total of twenty-one students from Grundy County enrolled at Tech.
An article in the Grundy County Herald dated January 22, 1948: "Altamont is the first town in Grundy County to honor the veterans with a memorial marker – a beautiful granite marker has been erected by the "Town of Altamont" on the south side of the county courthouse listing the names of all veterans killed in the line of duty during World War I and World War II.
Now I'm going way back and give you a little information when the convicts worked the coalmines and coke ovens here in Tracy City for the Tennessee Coal, Iron and Railroad Company.
On March 26, 1877 the penitentiary at Nashville and the labor of the convicts were leaded to A.M. Shook for six years from August 1, 1877 for a rental fee of $75,000 per year. The lessees were to receive the convicts at the place of conviction and pay the cost of transportation.
On December 1, 1880, there were 302 convicts working at the coalmines and coke ovens in Tracy City for the Tennessee Coal, Iron, and Railroad Company. On January 1, 1884 the Tennessee Coal, Iron and Railroad Company became the lessees of the penitentiary at a rental fee of $101,000 per year. They worked and contracted sixty per cent of the entire prison and sub-leased the rest to Cherry, Morrow, and Company.
On December 1, 1884 there were 436 convicts working the coalmines and coke ovens at Tracy City. During the two years, 1882-1884, 83 convicts died at the Tracy City Stockade, 14 convicts escaped during this time.
On December 1, 1886 there were 313 convicts at the Tracy City Stockade and on December 1, 1888 there was 352 convicts working the coke ovens and mines in Tracy City.
From 1886 thru 1888, 21 convicts died at Tracy City and 11 escaped.
A stockade for these convicts was located above where the Grundy County Highway Garage is now located in what we know as the "Headon." Another stockade was located above the largest lake, now known as the Grundy Lakes State Park. The ovens are back to back, so when you are viewing the remains of these old coke ovens, think back to these old days here in Tracy City.


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Serious Reads: How Bad Are Bananas? by Mike Berners-Lee
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Climate change is an undeniably hot topic (pun intended) in both the media and the academic world. Amidst controversial claims and pessimistic forecasts, we're sometimes left wondering how we can event attempt to minimize our own impact on a perhaps permanently altered climate. Author Mike Berners-Lee attempts to give us some guidance in his new book, How Bad Are Bananas?: The Carbon Footprint of Everything, by detailing the direct and external climate impact that even seemingly innocuous human activities can have on the environment. Ever wonder how much using a cell phone or staying in a hotel for a night added to your environmental impact? This book holds the answers.
The book is laid out in sections, grouping commodities and activities according to the size of their carbon footprints. Berners-Lee expands on the definition of a "carbon footprint" to encompass the object's full climate change impact. His notation of choice is "CO2e", or the carbon dioxide equivalent of the combined greenhouse gasses added to the atmosphere by doing the dishes, making porridge, or flying across the ocean.
Berners-Lee emphasizes a few points before delving into his findings. First, all calculations are merely his best possible estimates of climate change impact—nearly always rounded to a neat sum. He is trying to give us a better sense of the scale of impact of the items he analyzes, rather than exact scientific data. Second, he does not seek to preach to the reader or convert anyone to a zero-impact lifestyle. His belief is that if we all knew how much carbon could be saved by taking a 5-minute instead of a 15-minute shower, say (1.3 kg of CO2e: the carbon dioxide equivalent of burning about two cups of gasoline), we'd be able to make manageable and mindful lifestyle changes.
Food is a recurring theme in the book, because agriculture and the processing of food is incredibly environmentally detrimental. In a special section dedicated to food, Berners-Lee emphasizes seeking out seasonal products with reduced packaging; buying only what you need to reduce food waste; and using more conscientious cooking methods (keep a lid on your pan to conserve heat; use a microwave whenever possible). If you make some of these changes, he estimates you can reduce the carbon footprint of your diet by 8 to 10%.
One interesting component of these suggestions is the high carbon footprint of eating non-seasonal, air-freighted produce like tomatoes (per 1 kg of hothouse tomatoes, 50 kg CO2e is emitted—over 110 pounds!). Berners-Lee advises seeking out foods like apples, oranges, and bananas that are shipped by boat rather than those shipped by airplane. He also discusses how important it is to avoid wasting food by throwing it in the garbage; the methane released by food rot in landfills is particularly environmentally detrimental.
One other suggestion that Berners-Lee emphasizes is avoiding meat and dairy products. It's been said before that meat production results in environmental degradation through clearing of forests for pasture land, growing of monoculture crops for feed, and the methane released through animal gasses. But Berners-Lee also emphasizes reducing dairy as a crucial lifestyle component to minimizing environmental impact. 2 pounds of cheese has a CO2e of about 22 pounds, versus about 25 for beef. While it may be tough to cut back on these food groups in particular, Berners-Lee estimates doing so would reduce the carbon footprint of your diet by over 25%.
This book is a fun, interesting collection of data with little preaching or scolding. Its most useful application is to give a better sense of the scale of impact all these items and activities have. Now I know that eating an apple is far better carbon-wise than a tomato, but choosing to do so will only make a real difference in my carbon footprint if I don't get stuck in a congested commute on my way home. How Bad Are Bananas? is worth a read if you're looking for a way to wrap your head around your carbon impact—but don't want to feel like you're personally responsible for all environmental degradation.
About the Author: A student in Providence, Rhode Island, Leah Douglas loves learning about, talking about, reading about, and consuming food. Her work is also featured in Rhode Island Monthly magazine.
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Hi all, it seems I can't win for losing with the health issues. The pollen count is really high here in Houston and there hasn't been any rain to wash it away. Which means ALLERGIES!! I have had a really annoying and interfering allergy attack this past week and hadn't felt like doing anything. I worked on two projects and didn't finish either one. Good thing I have some projects ready by not posted and here is one of them, a quilled pecan pie slice treat box.
It is one of the projects that I made for the September Custom Quilling Newsletter. When I saw the rich brown card stock in the kit I knew I wanted to use it to make a pie slice. I quilled two coils and shaped them into a "D" shape with slightly inward curled tips. Then a smaller coil was shaped into a marquise and used as the center portion of the pecan slice. Two different colors of brown strips were used for contrast on the pecans.
The crust of the pie was made from shaping quilled coils into a "C" shape, gluing two together to build up the height. Then alternate these to form the pinched crust look. You could even make it three high if you wanted a taller crust. All of these quilled shapes were put on top of a pie slice treat box cut from my Cricut using Tags Bags and More and the top of the pie slice box from the Tie the Knot cartridge, for the "doily" plate.
I added a wide gold bow just behind the crust and added another pecan slice on it for an accent. You can make it smaller or larger if you want and fill them with your favorite treats, it opens at the back. Easy and looks real, or at least my grandson thought so! It was so fun to make I am sure I will make more versions. Well I am still fighting the lack of energy because I can't breathe but I am GOING to finish those two projects tomorrow!!! Back with another project,
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Bringing home a new baby is different the second time around. Caring for a newborn and an older child at the same time is like any new skill, it takes time, practice, and patience. Fortunately, with experience comes wisdom — some things you struggled with as a first time mom will be second nature by now. And that gives you more time to devote to helping your older child adjust to life with a new brother or sister.
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Seeing, then seizing, the advantages of giving while suppressing the instinct for taking has emerged as a trend in the business world, or at least in the academic and professional literature on success.
Bob Burg's bestselling Go Giver series of books is an early example of the genre that seeks to reframe business transactions as opportunities to empathize with and help others solve problems, with financial reward a mere "echo of value" that follows naturally from the process of giving.
A new entry in the generosity-is-profitable category is Wharton School of Finance professor Adam Grant's Give and Take: A Revolutionary Approach to Success, a new book replete with academic studies buttressing the go-giver argument.
Grant introduces some of these arguments in an article in the summer issue of Strategy + Business, a publication of management consulting firm Booz & Co.
Grant, who teaches organizational behavior and teamwork and leadership classes at the University of Pennsylvania, argues there has been a shift in the contemporary workplace's organizational dynamics.
In the hierarchical environments of the past, takers could climb to the top on the shoulders of givers. In today's more team-oriented workplaces, it is givers who tend to thrive while takers find it much harder to prosper.
Givers, Grant writes in the Strategy+Business article, "are the teammates who volunteer for unpopular projects, share their knowledge and skills, and help out by arriving early or staying late."
The mechanism by which givers earn higher rates of promotion while takers flounder is a third group Grant calls "matchers," who make up the majority of a company's employees. Matchers fall in the middle of the giver-taker spectrum but where they do stand out is in keeping score.
Not wanting to see injustice done, they "tax" takers by spreading "negative reputational information," for example, while providing "bonuses" to givers via "compensation, recognition or recommendations for promotions."
Grant gives the example of this group dynamic in the case of a Google engineer who received eight promotions in a single year:
"He volunteered his time to train new hires and help members of multiple cross-functional teams learn new technologies, and his peers and managers responded like matchers, granting him additional pay and recognition."
Grant cites several studies showing that giver behavior accrues to the bottom line in that employees work harder for leaders who put others' interests first—that is, giver behavior triggers a desire on the part of majority matchers to see self-sacrifice rewarded.
In one of these studies, members of various teams were asked to rate each other on a variety of characteristics, then asked at the end of the project who emerged as leaders.
"The single strongest predictor of leadership was the amount of compassion that members expressed toward others in need. Interestingly, compassionate people were not only viewed as caring; they were also judged as more knowledgeable and intelligent," Grant writes.
The lesson in all of this for leaders of financial advisory teams may be Grant's advice to "focus less on individual skills and talents, and more on the extent to which employees use their skills and talents to lift others up — rather than cutting them down."
And since only a minority of employees are predisposed toward giving, the Wharton professor advises managers to create practices that "nudge employees in the giver direction" and counsels recognizing "role models who embody an orientation toward others."
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For a split second, the man thought about jumping the armed robber who had forced him and three others to lie face down in the back room of the Citgo station.
"Your mind says, 'Is it worth it?' " the 53-year-old father of three said. "But I love my wife and my family too much. It's not worth it.
"I don't know if they were druggies or what," he said about the gunman and the woman with him Monday night in Portage Park. "If they're hyped up, they could be stronger than you are. I wasn't going to take a chance and end up losing that battle and getting shot. . .If it doesn't go right, I get a bullet in the head."
For a long 10 minutes, he and the others waited, not knowing if the robber would walk back and kill them all.
"I was hoping that they don't shoot. Brown's Chicken came to mind,'' he said, referring to the mass slaying in Palatine more than 20 years ago.
Finally, the clerk got up and checked. The man and woman had left after grabbing a thousand dollars in cash from the register. They also swiped several cartons of Newport cigarettes and some packs of cigars.
The man, who did not want to be identified, said he was relieved but angry. "How dare they, you know?"
The man and woman entered the Citgo at 4219 N. Milwaukee Ave. around 9:30 p.m., and the man man pulled a gun and demanded money from the 28-year-old clerk, according to the police report.
The clerk gave them around $1,000. But then the two bound his hands with zip ties and dragged him to the back room, where one of them hit him and demanded to know where the safe was, according to the police report.
They were interrupted by a 33-year-old woman from Norridge who walked in, police said. She too was tied up and ordered to lie face down next to the clerk, the report said.
That's when the 53-year-old man entered, along with a woman he didn't know. The man said he stopped at the station to grab some milk and a Danish for his wife, as he often did. But this time he saw no one at the register.
"I knew something was going on," he said. "They're usually pretty quick and my mind started clicking when this guy came from the back."
Instead of going up to the register, the guy began grabbing cigars. "I started trying to get out and he held the door and said, 'Don't move or I'll shoot you,' " the man said.
The robber was "no more than a couple of inches'' from him, he said. "It was surreal, like something you see on a video or on TV."
He and the woman were ordered to lie down with the others, but they were not tied up. They were warned they would be shot if they tried to use their phones or looked at them, police said.
The two repeatedly returned to the front of the store, scooping up cigarettes and cigars before fleeing down an alley, police said. The man said he called 911 about 10 p.m. after the clerk peeked outside to make sure they were not still there, the victim said.
The police report described the robbers as black, between the ages of 20 and 30 and wearing white T-shirts and shorts. The woman wore a white White Sox cap with tan trim and the man wore a red Chicago Bulls cap, the report said.
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Ameiko is a beautiful but somewhat irreverent woman of Tian descent who runs Sandpoint's Rusty Dragon tavern and happens to be a member of one of Sandpoint's founding families. Her parents and older siblings have met unfortunate ends over the past several years, leaving the young woman as the sole remaining Kaijitsu in town.
Ameiko may be among the town's nobility, but she's never really cared for the aristocracy—she's always had an urge to explore, and loves hearing stories of adventures and daring deeds. She even spent a year or so as an adventurer herself, along with her friend Sandru Vhiski. Her short adventuring career earned her enough money to buy the Rusty Dragon outright, and she now serves as its sole proprietor in her "retirement."
You get the feeling, though, that abandoning the adventuring life wasn't entirely her choice—certainly she doesn't talk much about what happened on her last adventure, or what happened to the others in her group. And although she has a lot of friends and admirers in town, Ameiko has never accepted anyone as anything more than a friend; she dodges personal questions and diplomatically avoids proposals of romance, much to the frustration of several eager suitors here in Sandpoint.
She's a talented singer and samisen player, and if she wanted to, Ameiko could certainly lead a comfortable life here in Sandpoint. You know her fairly well, however, well enough to know that she is growing increasingly bored and impatient with having nothing more to look forward to than a "safe life" in a "safe town." If the chance to go on an epic voyage or other grand adventure ever presents itself, you're convinced that Ameiko would sell the Rusty Dragon and set out once more to seek her fortune in a heartbeat.


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I'm a huge fan of live music, and have been since my high school days. Once I was in college, I started following my favorite bands around the country, and still do today.
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MONTREAL — The Beat is strong at 92.5 FM.
Quarterly radio ratings released on Thursday by BBM Canada show the station has finally vaulted past its main competitor, Virgin Radio 96, into first place in overall ratings among English-language music stations, with an 18.6-per-cent market share compared with 15.9 per cent for Virgin.
CJAD remains English Montreal's most listened-to station with a 25-per-cent market share, but since its audience skews older, it's not a top player in key demographics that attract advertisers, except for its popular morning show. CHOM is in fourth place overall with a 13.5-per-cent share, followed by CBC Radio One at seven per cent. TSN Radio 690 has a 2.6-per- cent share, down from 4.4 per cent in the year-earlier period. (The National Hockey League lockout's effects are probably still being felt here, since the ratings period covers Nov. 26 to Feb. 24 and the lockout ended in mid-January.)
"It's a solid book," The Beat's general manager, Mark Dickie, told The Gazette. "We're only 18 months into this new radio station and Montrealers are embracing it."
Since it launched in September 2011 with great fanfare and lots of promotions, The Beat has struggled to compete with Virgin for ratings. Its best result was a tie last spring, but those gains were lost in the fall.
Mark Bergman, brand director at Virgin Radio, dismissed The Beat's gains, pointing out that his station is still top rated among key demographics, especially young adults. For adults 25-54, Virgin is at 21.9 per cent versus 20.1 per cent for The Beat and 20 per cent for CHOM. Among women and younger adults, it has even larger leads. But those leads are smaller than they were a year ago.
"If you look at the history of ratings in radio, leads narrow and widen," Bergman said. "It's our goal and mission to always stay No. 1. We're confident that what we're doing is the right thing."
The Beat's 2011 rebranding was done mainly to attract a younger demographic, in response to Virgin's move toward a younger audience. The Beat dominates its core demographic of women 35-44 with a 27.9-per-cent market share. The 9-to-5 at-work station's strength remains daytime host Donna Saker, who is No. 1 among adults 25-54. "She's really solidifying her audience," Dickie said.
But the station's morning show, with hosts Cat Spencer and Sarah Bartok, continues to struggle, in fourth place behind Virgin, CHOM and CJAD.
At Virgin, the morning show with Freeway Frank and Natasha Gargiulo is No. 1 among women 25-54 and adults 18-49, nearly double its competitors.
"Anywhere you look at the station in any of the big demos, we couldn't be happier," Bergman said.
On the French side, news-talk station 98.5 FM continues to dominate with a 20.4-per-cent share overall, making it Quebec's most-listened-to radio station. It's followed by Rythme FM (16.2 per cent), Rouge FM (13.4 per cent), Radio-Canada (13.3 per cent), NRJ (8.7 per cent). CKOI struggles at 5.2 per cent, falling behind even Virgin and CHOM among francophone listeners.
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Tosin Abasi covers jazz voicings for the eight string guitar.
Taught by Tosin Abasi in Tosin Abasi Artist Series seriesLength: 8:18Difficulty: 2.5 of 5
this song is so stunning x
Hey guys! For Tosin's lessons, I'm including the chord charts for the chords that can be played on a six string guitar in the supplemental content section. The voicings for 7 and 8 string guitar are included under the "Info About This Lesson" tab.
really beautiful stuff, Tosin
Lead guitarist for Animals As Leaders, Tosin Abasi brings his knowledge of extended range guitars to JamPlay.
Lesson 1
As an introduction to JamPlay, Tosin Abasi provides an interview outlining his playing style, influences and musical background.Length: 14:46 Difficulty: 0.5 Members Only
Lesson 2
Tosin explains some of the intricacies of the 8 string guitar such as his personal setup and approach to playing.Length: 7:49 Difficulty: 1.0 FREE
Lesson 3
Tosin Abasi demonstrates how he uses hybrid picking styles in the song "On Impulse."Length: 9:28 Difficulty: 2.0 Members Only
Lesson 4
Tosin discusses harmonic and music theory ideas as they relate to the Animals As Leaders song "On Impulse."Length: 8:38 Difficulty: 2.5 Members Only
Lesson 5
Tosin discusses and demonstrates economy picking technique.Length: 14:41 Difficulty: 2.5 Members Only
Lesson 6
Tosin explains how he achieved some of the sounds in his song "On Impulse."Length: 8:50 Difficulty: 2.5 Members Only
Lesson 7
Tosin Abasi explains how bass style thumping and slap techniques can be performed on an 8 string guitar.Length: 15:26 Difficulty: 2.5 Members Only
Lesson 8
Tosin Abasi expands further on economy picking.Length: 9:54 Difficulty: 3.0 Members Only
Lesson 9
Tosin Abasi covers jazz voicings for the eight string guitar.Length: 8:18 Difficulty: 2.5 Members Only
Lesson 10
Tosin discusses how he voices chords on the eight string guitar.Length: 9:15 Difficulty: 2.0 Members Only
Lesson 11
Tosin Abasi discusses how bass techniques can be emulated on guitars with extended ranges as well as standard 6 string guitars.Length: 6:53 Difficulty: 2.5 Members Only
Lesson 12
Tosin Abasi takes a look at a two handed tapping technique that emulates a piano-like feel.Length: 31:59 Difficulty: 2.5 Members Only
Lesson 13
Tosin Abasi discusses a muted tapping techniques he utilizes in his playing.Length: 5:25 Difficulty: 2.5 Members Only
Lesson 14
In his 14th lesson, Tosin discusses riffing in compound meter over a straight back-beat.Length: 12:30 Difficulty: 3.5 Members Only
Lesson 15
In this lesson, Tosin demonstrates a few of his favorite licks that utilize the full range of the eight string guitar as well as the economy picking technique.Length: 23:17 Difficulty: 3.0 Members Only
Lesson 16
Tosin Abasi discusses how fingerstyle can be adapted for use on an electric guitar. Additionally, he takes a look at some advanced one string tremolo techniques that can mimic non-percussive bass thumping.Length: 13:24 Difficulty: 2.5 Members Only
Lesson 17
In his 17th lesson, Tosin discusses how he goes about composing for guitar.Length: 5:59 Difficulty: 1.0 Members Only
Lesson 18
In lesson 18, Tosin discusses how to organize scale patterns on the neck of the guitar using the CAGED system.Length: 24:30 Difficulty: 2.0 Members Only
Lesson 19
In this lesson, Tosin demonstrates several alternate picking exercises aimed at improving dexterity, speed, and accuracy.Length: 6:12 Difficulty: 2.5 Members Only
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Hi. My name is Tosin Abasi. I'm the lead guitarist for Animals as Leaders. I've been playing the guitar for 15 years, and touring professionally on and off for about 6.
A majority of that time has been spent playing extended range guitar (7 and 8 strings) . I'm primarily self taught but I studied jazz and classical guitar briefly at the Atlanta Institute of Music.
The extended range guitar can offer a lot of possibilities for composition. Unfortunately, the resources available to 6 string guitarist don't exist in the same prominence for the seven guitar (especially not the 8 string guitar). Through my compositions I hope to break down my approach to utilizing the 7 and 8 string guitar in both lead and rhythm work. We'll also examine multiple techniques such as Hybrid picking, Sweeping, Tapping and Slapping.
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It was the first time Rochester had heard of the condition, which leads to pain in various parts of the body due to the lack of oxygen circulating.
"In the 70s there was no education, no materials or resources to help families affected," she said. So she decided to inform herself.
"I took it upon myself to look for materials and to educate myself to help my daughter," she said. Her determination led her to others in the same situation and soon, families affected by the disease started to gather in Rochester's basement in St. Albans.
Out of that grew the Sickle Cell Advocacy Network (QSCAN), the nonprofit organization that is another home for many.
Located at 207-08 Hollis Avenue, QSCAN helps between 300-400 families by offering a number of free services, from support groups for families and individuals affected by the condition to referrals to state and local services.
The organization receives funding from local legislators as well as individuals and Rochester works full time to make her cause more well-known, visiting schools and community health fairs, handing out educational materials.
"We work tremendously advocating for these families that often spend most of their time in the hospital," she said.
Currently there is no cure for the disease but successful bone marrow transplantations have been done on patients and Rochester's daughter is still alive despite the condition. She is married with three sickle cell-free children.
Rochester stressed that more needs to be done in terms of advocating for sickle cell research and QSCAN, which was recently named the official New York chapter of the Sickle Cell Association of America, is doing its part to provide a tight-knit community of support for individuals.
"Some have been with me since they were babies; some are grown up and married" she said. "The reward I get is from them."


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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (Dec. 16, 2013) – Over the course of two seasons, Matt Anderson went from an "Olympic rookie" to a veteran leader of the U.S. Men's National Volleyball Team.
|Matt Anderson (1) attacks against Canada in Langley.
It is a testament to his talent and willingness to step up where needed that he was named USA Volleyball's Male Indoor Athlete of the Year for 2012 and again for 2013.
In 2012, Anderson, who is now 26, was the youngest player on the 2012 U.S. Olympic Men's Volleyball Team. In 2013, the team looked to him for leadership.
His first test came at the 2013 FIVB World League, where he served as the U.S. team captain. As first-year U.S. Head Coach John Speraw evaluated new players in the U.S. Men's lineup, Anderson was a consistent starter, playing in all 39 World League pool play sets and leading the team in kills and scoring.
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For the second straight year, Anderson finished the season leading the U.S. Men in scoring (301; 4.36 points per set) and kills (261; 3.78 kills per set). He was second behind libero Erik Shoji in digs (79; 1.14 per set).
"The greatest challenge for me this summer was to start carrying myself at a more constant level," Anderson (West Seneca, N.Y.) said via e-mail from Russia, where he plays for Zenit Kazan, one of the top teams in that country's Super League. "I was trying to be an example and a steady figure for other players to balance their game around. I guess it's a growing-up, maturing athlete position."
Following World League, the U.S. Men had a six-week training block and Anderson was called on to change from his usual position at left-side outside hitter to opposite, hitting primarily on the right side.
The shift was debuted in the final match of the NORCECA Men's Continental Championship in Langley, Canada, and Anderson stepped up and helped the U.S. to a 3-0 victory over the host country in front of a packed house of 5,000. He was named the tournament most valuable player and also made the all-star team.
"Competing and winning the NORCECA tournament in Langley was definitely the highlight of the summer," Anderson said. "We worked hard to make changes in our individual and team game. It was nice to see the immediate translation to competition."
Anderson played opposite for much of the FIVB World Grand Champions Cup in Japan, where the U.S. Men were just a few key plays away from finishing with a 4-1 record, but instead were 2-3. Anderson was first among all scorers at the Grand Champions Cup.
As he continues to play in Russia, Anderson is already preparing for what needs to happen in the gym in Anaheim, Calif., next season.
"Work, work and more work," he said. "We still have work to do to become the best team in the world."
|Max Holt attacks against the Dominican Republic.
Middle blocker Max Holt (Cincinnati) was voted USA Volleyball's Most Improved Male Indoor Athlete.
Holt was the U.S. Men's second-leading scorer this season (177 points; 3.05 points per set) and its leading blocker (54 blocks; .93 blocks per set).
To finish the season, Holt was named the first middle blocker on the all-star team at the Grand Champions Cup.
Holt said he was motivated to improve after not making the 2012 Olympic Team.
"My greatest challenge this past summer was bouncing back and re-establishing myself as a player," Holt said via e-mail from Russia where he plays for Dinamo Moscow. "I learned a lot from not making the London team, and that drove me every day to work harder to become the best player I could possibly be."
Like Anderson, Holt is also preparing to work hard in the gym in 2014.
"My mindset heading into 2014 is to pick up where I left off," Holt said. "I am grateful to receive the most improved player award, but that doesn't mean that I will stop improving."
The U.S. Men's Team staff also wanted to recognized libero Erik Shoji (Honolulu) for his contribution. In his first year with the U.S. Men's Team, Shoji played every set of every match and finished with 197 digs (2.74 digs per set).
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Gay couples with civil marriages or civil partnerships must retain their rights in all European Union countries, the European Parliament reaffirmed this morning.
Currently, same-sex couples are not guaranteed to retain the rights given by their existing marriage or civil partnership when travelling in the European Union.
In its just-adopted report on civil, commercial, family and private international law, the European Parliament "strongly supports plans to enable the mutual recognition of the effects of civil status documents", and "stresses the need to ensure mutual recognition" of such documents by EU countries.
This entails recognising the effects of all existing marriages and partnerships when citizens move in the EU.
Following this vote, the European Commission will now have to propose ways to enable mutual recognition of all partnerships and marriages throughout the EU.
"This is a great development for the many couples and families who see their fundamental rights diminished every day when crossing a border inside the EU," said Ulrike Lunacek MEP, co-president of the European Parliament's all-party Intergroup on LGBT Rights
"It's a vote for equality: everyone should retain their existing rights when travelling in the EU," she pointed out.
At present a marriage certificate is recognised by other countries when a couple move abroad, but the same isn't true of other legal documents.
Conservative groups in the Parliament had advised against the measure, arguing that it risked undermining national sovereignty.
UK Tory MEPs were defeated in an attempt to block the call for equal treatment for people in same-sex partnerships.
The newly elected leader of the Conservative MEPs, Martin Callanan, had tabled amendments to specifically delete references to "civil status documents" which proposed extending this type of "mutual recognition" to civil partnerships.
But this measure, as passed by the European Parliament. strengthens the universality of fundamental rights for EU residents across borders in the European Union, supporters argued, adding that it does not change national laws on civil unions, which remain a national prerogative.
"It follows the Commission's assertion in September that freedom of movement must be guaranteed for all citizens, regardless of sexual orientation. Claims that mutual recognition will 'undermine national sovereignty' are plain wrong: it won't affect national marriage or partnership laws, but simply recognise civil unions that already exist," said Michael Cashman, the other co-president of the Intergroup.
Arlene McCarthy MEP, UK Labour's spokesperson on the European Parliament's Legal Affairs Committee, also welcomed the decision.
"Currently same sex couples who have a civil partnership in the UK can find themselves losing their rights when travelling to other countries in the European Union," she said.
"In Britain we recognise the status of other countries' civil partnerships but that isn't always true for British people who move abroad.
"I am shocked that a Tory MEP felt the need to table amendments to this report deleting the reference to civil partnerships," she said. "They seem to be saying that people in a civil partnership in the UK don't deserve to have their partnership recognised when travelling abroad."
While today's vote will not result in immediate changes to the law on this issue, it is seen in Brussels as an important step in the preparation of legislation that is expected to be proposed by the European Commission next year.


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I remember it happening for the first time about a week after I was handed a sleeping, peeling, slightly-gray, overcooked baby boy. We were sitting in the bathroom floor and I was massaging lotion into all his nooks and crannies to help shed the peeling skin and he looked in my direction and sighed.
I didn't understand the feeling at first. It was painful in the same way that soaring hopes make you want to reach for grounding material. Painful in a way that makes you believe in God and understand your mother.
The cracking has happened again and again over the years. First steps and big words and new babies and laughter and tears have sent fissures ripping through my heart, endlessly.
But today, watching my Mountain Man walking his daughter into preschool for her very first day, watching her hand hooked first into his back pocket and then into his palm, watching her break down and him scoop her up?
I swear everyone in a ten-mile radius heard the earthquake echoing out of me. The ground surely rumbled and buildings swayed as the little girl in me felt that soaring hope that only little girls and their daddies can understand.
I am a fatherless daughter. It has shaped me. But my daughter is loved in a way that I'll never understand, a way I can't truly appreciate and may even be slightly envious of.
No, not envious. Inspired. I am inspired by the way this man loves this child. I am inspired by the way any man loves his child, but especially this man loving this child who looks and acts so much like me.
She is lovable the way I am lovable. She is amazing the way I am amazing. She is enough the way I am enough.
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Not content with digging up Billy the Kid's mother to settle a debate over the outlaw's fate, now local sheriffs want to exhume the remains under the Kid's gravestone. And since New Mexico's governor appointed a lawyer to represent the Old West outlaw, one of the petitioners seeking the exhumation of Billy the Kid is ... Billy the Kid.
The petition, filed in New Mexico's 10th District Court last Thursday, opens the latest chapter in a 123-year-old mystery: Who's buried in Billy the Kid's grave?
Exploring that question touches on genetic science and the economics of small-town tourism as well as one of the greatest legends of the Old West.
Tangled Old West tale
Most historians agree that Billy the Kid, a.k.a. William Bonney, was gunned down by Sheriff Pat Garrett in 1881 and buried in Fort Sumner, N.M. But "Brushy Bill" Roberts in Texas, as well as John Miller in Arizona, each went to his own grave decades later claiming that he was the "real" Kid, and that the man shot in Fort Sumner was an impostor. One old-timer even says Garrett's widow told him the sheriff shot an innocent man to cover up the Kid's escape.
Ten months ago, the sheriffs of De Baca County and Lincoln County reopened the investigation, saying that they would take a DNA sample from the Kid's mother, who was buried in Silver City, N.M., then try to match it up with remains from the purported "sons." That idea didn't sit well with the mayors of Fort Sumner and Silver City, who feared the hubbub would do damage to the Old West cemeteries and cast clouds of doubt over the legends that brought tourists to their towns.
The sheriffs started the legal action last November by petitioning a judge for the exhumation of Catherine Antrim, the mother. The judge put that case on hold until August — but signaled that it didn't make much sense to take a sample of the mother's DNA unless other remains were sampled as well.
That's why De Baca County Sheriff Gary Graves, Lincoln County Sheriff Tom Sullivan and his assistant, Steve Sederwall, filed last week's petition for the Kid's exhumation. The three officials were joined by Bill Robins III and David Sandoval, attorneys appointed by New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson to represent the Kid's interests.
The sheriffs' investigation could well lead to a posthumous pardon for the Kid — thus, the long-deceased "co-petitioner" has an interest in seeing the DNA tests done, Robins told MSNBC.com.
"Frankly, we did not expect there to be such a resistance in Silver City" to the mother's exhumation, Robins said. "We don't want to wait, and then go to another court and have that long of a delay in another court. Our thinking is to kill two birds with one stone."
Robins said the legal team was preparing to seek the exhumation of the Kid claimants in Texas and Arizona as well.
"Our effort remains to get to the truth concerning Billy the Kid, and we feel procedurally this is the most effective and timely way of doing it," he said.
Challenge expected
Fort Sumner Mayor Ray Lopez has not yet filed a formal response to last week's court filing and was unavailable for comment Wednesday, but in the past he has argued strongly against exhumation. Sandy Paul of the Fort Sumner Chamber of Commerce said she was positive town officials would challenge any effort to dig up the Kid.
"We will probably do everything within our power to prevent this from happening," Paul told MSNBC.com.
Opponents of the exhumation say there's no question that the Kid was shot and buried in Fort Sumner. Moreover, they say the graves have been moved over the years, and there's no guarantee that the Kid or his mother are still buried where their gravestones have been placed.
One of the most vocal opponents, Trish Saunders of the Billy the Kid Historic Preservation Society, says the digging could damage surrounding graves as well as the whole historical aura that has been built up around Old West cemeteries.
"We get e-mail from people literally all over the world, saying, 'We come to see gravesites that are undisturbed. We want to see the mythic Old West as it is now — lonesome, undisturbed, preserved,'" she said.
But wouldn't a renewed investigation actually give a 21st-century boost to Old West tourism? Saunders said she was sympathetic to that argument. "It will certainly attract a brief blip of controversy, but in the long term, the damage will be severe," she said.
Saunders said her organization was concerned about the sheriffs' latest move, "but we are optimistic that reason will prevail and that this petition will be turned down." Billy the Kid's status as a co-petitioner showed that the drive for exhumation was "just reaching into the realm of the ridiculous," she said.
"How can someone who died 120 years ago petition for the removal of his own corpse?" she asked.
Robins, who is handling the Kid's case on a pro-bono basis, admitted that he was in an unusual position. "This is a strange case," he said.
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Washington D.C., Jul 2, 2013 / 05:18 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- More than 100 religious leaders from various faith backgrounds are asking the U.S. government to respect the beliefs of those who oppose the demands of the controversial HHS mandate.
"As the Catholic bishops have said from the very beginning, the underlying issue with the HHS Mandate is not about any specific teaching," stated Archbishop of Baltimore William E. Lori, who chairs the U.S. bishops' Ad Hoc Committee for Religious Liberty.
"In fact, other signatories on the letter do not share our view on contraception and probably disagree with us in many other ways, but they understand the core religious freedom issue at stake here," he explained.
Archbishop Lori spoke as part of a July 2 panel of religious leaders at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C.
The panel was held to mark the release of an open letter, "Standing Together for Religious Freedom," signed by Archbishop Lori and more than 100 other religious leaders and scholars from a variety of faith traditions.
The letter emphasized the risks to religious freedom posed by the Obama administration's HHS mandate, which requires nearly all employers to offer health insurance plans that cover contraception, sterilization and some drugs that can cause early-stage abortions.
Many faith-based organizations and religious individuals running for-profit businesses have sued the government over the mandate, which they say violates their First Amendment right to religious freedom. Failure to comply with the regulation results in large fines that could be devastating for the businesses.
Yuri Mantilla, chairman of the Justice Initiative of the National Hispanic Christian Leadership Conference, explained that the mandate threatens religious freedom by forcing "religious believers to make a choice between obeying the law and violating deeply held religious beliefs; or obeying fundamental religious and moral norms and disobeying the governmental mandate."
The signers of the letter asked the administration to "at a minimum, expand conscience protections under the mandate to cover any organization or individual that has religious or moral objections to covering, providing or enabling access to the mandated drugs and services."
They also call on Congress to implement legislation protecting against religious freedom violations.
Sociology professor Anne Hendershott of Franciscan University of Steubenville, Ohio, said that despite the government's assertions that the mandate does not injure religious non-profit organizations – such as the Catholic university where she works – the mandate in actuality has caused harm and threatens to cause more harm.
Catholic schools and universities "have already been injured by this unjust mandate because our constitutional right to religious freedom has been compromised," she said.
She warned that should these violations continue to escalate, "the state can target us as they have done to Catholic adoption agencies that won't place children with gay and lesbian couples."
Russell D. Moore, president of the Ethical and Religious Liberty Commission of the Southern Baptist Convention, stressed that while the infringements on religious liberty presented by the HHS mandate are subtle, they are significant.
"Our First Freedom of religious liberty is rarely challenged with sudden shock and awe tactics," he said. "Instead, from the very beginning, such incursions on religious liberty happen in this country from the pen of a bureaucrat rather than the barrel of a tank."
"Do we really want the sort of civil society in which the consciences of the people are so easily swept aside by government action?" asked Moore.
He added that if the government can impose its will on one group of people "what will stop the government from its imposing its will on your consciences next?"
"We support freedom of conscience not only for ourselves but for all," he emphasized.
"We do not ask the government to bless our doctrinal convictions, or to impose them on others. We simply ask the government not to set itself up as lord of our consciences."


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Letter to Conn. Governor Under Investigation
The Connecticut State Police are investigating a threat against Gov. Dannel P. Malloy made by someone claiming they sent a letter to the Democrat containing anthrax.
On Tuesday, the state Capitol Police discovered the suspected letter in the state Capitol complex mailroom and cordoned off the area. An initial field test showed the letter tested negative for anthrax, an infectious disease caused by a type of bacteria. The letter was transported to the state police crime laboratory for further testing.
The state police Major Crimes Division is investigating the threat against Malloy, which consisted of a phone call to the governor's constituent services office.
In 2001, anthrax was deliberately spread through the U.S. postal system when letters with powder containing anthrax were sent, resulting in 22 cases of anthrax infection.


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There's this awesome little Greek restaurant (if you can even call it a restaurant) on campus that is fabulous. The owner, cook, and cashier is one man and he speaks very little English. He's cute as a button and only knows how to ask for your order and say "you welcome, big pleasure!". He doesn't just say it once either. It got me thinking of all the big pleasures I have in my life.
Tuesday, June 21, 2011
Big Pleasure! Big Pleasure!
I feel it would be a little cliche if I started by telling you about our great Father's Day so I'll begin by telling you about this awesome 5k run we did in Boston on Saturday morning. It's called the Freedom Trail Run and it's an easy run around the major land marks on the Freedom Trail and we stop every quarter mile or so, and Eddie-O shares with us interesting facts. It's by far the best $35 we've spent (in a long time) and THE best way to tour a city. I mean honestly... seeing the city first-hand, learning and exercising all at the same time = pure genius.
Father's Day was warm, sunny and beautiful. It's beyond my comprehension that it's the end of June because in the mornings I'm still wearing a little jacket and turning the heat on in the car. Seriously. Beyond my comprehension. However, we spent a beautiful afternoon together just relaxing, walking our dogchild and paying bills. Doesn't get much better than that my friends.
Gracie loves to sit on people's feet. She can find them without even looking. Just plops her little tooch down wherever she feels inclined.
I found this chick on etsy that does custom portraits for a reasonable price and thought it would make a perfect Father's Day gift. I highly recommend AshMae. She was easy to work with...and I love her whimsical (non traditional) art pieces.
I loved what she did so much I ordered an iPad sticker while they were on sale at One Kings Lane. Cony got a kick out of em'.
And finally I thought I'd share my favorite part of our new pad. The pantry/laundry room. I'm not sure what I love more about it- the built in shelves, the window or the fact that we can have a washer/dryer under our own roof again. Big pleasure!
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Monday, June 13, 2011
Disconnect to Reconnect
This weekend we made a plan to disconnect from the world as much as possible to reconnect. I tell ya, a marriage is hard work. And if we aren't constantly working at it-life ain't so happy.
We spent the weekend going to a baby shower....
Going to the drive-in theater... We watched the X-Men movie and loved it. In fact, we spent most of Sunday ignoring all the housework and watching the other X-Men movies. Just finished the third one for Family Home Evening.
We even let Gracie Lou cuddle with us in our bed. She loves changing bed sheets day.
Here's the only piece of art I've hung in the house..... found the frame for $6 at an antique store. Have I mentioned how awesome antique stores are up here? Tag sales too!
This cow took a liking to me while on my walk around campus.
And this is a sunset I was able to enjoy on a run the other night. I have to admit, this little rink-a-dink town we live in has some of the best sunsets I've seen.
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Wednesday, June 8, 2011
A Virtuous Picnic
I'm so tickled with how last night's Young Women's Activity went I couldn't wait to share it. For those of you who may not know, every Tuesday night the Youth of our church get together and do different activities (service projects, craft projects, games, etc...something that helps lift the spirits of these young kids!) We planned it to bounce off the Sunday's lesson on Temple Marriage by getting dolled up, eating cake and having a mini photo shoot.
What's a party without an invitation?
And a cake? Don't judge me too harshly. It's been a really long time since I've had to decorate a cake in a legit manner.
My beautiful and amazing Young Women....
The ladies I get to serve with and help me in more ways then they'll ever be aware of...
LOVE these ladies. I would keep them in my pocket all the time if I could.
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